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%te (1 Serving Edit Adam Sny< Nikki LaRocq Stephanie Sonnenfeld ; OP! \FATT7 iivn aiiui have beet Attending a HQJT] Southern university, it's some- USC i times challeng ing to remember that academia is Kipv the reason we i are all here. Gradual , n^}1 findings ball, tailgatmg ,, and the excite- ^ SPC ment of basket- L ball pervading rrnn i i i uou, dooks ana | intellectual pursuits sometimes slide into the ^ background, especially where w our reputation is concerned. To be brutally honest, the general public opinion of USC gravitates more toward its sports. We leave the research reputation to universities such as Emoiy and Duke. But graduate student Melissa Bacic could propel USC back into the intellectual spotlight. Almost by accident. ? Bacic may have found a new natural antibiotic in an ocean CP not to poorticfc For years, I students have complained ( shout the music acts Carolina moiu Productions HTTPY brought to cam- HLmAS V - CPdi They're sick pi)pwt ? of listening to jj . groups they can couLa t see at Rockafel- success) las' or Elbow Room on any given Friday or Saturday evening. The students have argued for more "popular groups." So CP provided The Wall flowers, the group responsible for the overplayed song of the 0 summer, "One Headlight." The band is pretty popular with the MTV set and has drawn sizable crowds to its tour dates this past summer. It looked as if CP could certainly make a profit from the deal. Wrong. Only a small group nf neonle showed nn to the show Word is, many students didn't go because they thought ticket prices were too high. BE Student Media Russell Hon Adam Snyder Susa Editor in Chief Phi Nlkki LaRocque Doni Viewpoints Editor Grap Rosalind Harvey Stephani dB News Editor Asst. Vie Sara Ladenheim Kristin News Editor, Design Car Marcus Amaker Asst' ^ Amy Shannon Nath Features Editors Asst. : Achim Hunt Tor Bryan Johnston Asst. 1 Sports Editors Bon Pillow On-l Copy Desk Chief JulJ Chris Dixon Chi Copy Editor Case Jess. Creati The Gamecock is the student cock are those ol newspaper of The University of South and not those < Carolina and is published Monday, South Carolina. Wednesday and n-iday during the fall _ _ and spring semesters and five times *"e Board during the summer with the excep- U?ns Comm tion of university holidays and exam Usher of The Gs penods. TheDepar Opinions expressed in The Game- dia is its parent The Gamecock will try to print The Gamecock all letters received. Letters should be House room 331 200-250 words and must include full The Gamer name, professional title or year and to edit all letter major if a student. Letters must be bel or space lirr personally deUvered by the author to not be withheld 5amecock use Since 1908 orial Board ier, Editor in Chief ue, Viewpoints Editor , Assistant Viewpoints Editor >iotic may i found I microbe, accordjng an article Research bi The State. Research in _______ alternative antibiotics is crucial, since diseases \e student's have begun to re , could put sist traditional i. antibiotics. Baac might on believes that if fi 'SC. rial tests prove favorable, this new antibiotic may be able to fight i staph and airborne infections i often fatal for people with AIDS. If final research goes as i Baric and biology professor Du! ane Yoch hope, this could put i USC into research history. 1 Wp tippH fnvnrnhlp nrpss nn 1 more than just our sports games. Prominent research such ; as this is exactly what this uni! versity needs. ^ Perhaps the nation won't ? continue to dismiss us as just r another football-loving South1 ern university. We are more than that, and Bacic proves it. blame for it sales [ffiJEHB Some stu Hants rlirln't want 'JP's to see the band ; because it wasn't itary loss convenient. Some jirjrTTTTTWI were sick of see I ing Jacob Dylan's d almost head, clad in , . .L trademark hat, king they popping up on 0 ensure a MTV, and they hll concert. certainly didn't want to see him in person. That's tough 1 for CP because they ended up losing thousands of dollars on the deal. That's an extreme amount to lose in one night. ! Looking back on the situas tion, maybe CP could have ! downsized its concert venue. rm m . _.i_ a vi u ine iownsmp Auaiionum coma have sufficed and maybe drawn more people. Maybe ticket prices could have been lower. Nonetheless, what's done i is done, and now CP has to deal with the damage. 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But Gone With The Wind will always be the first in a long line of written obsessions. Now, in all learned honesty, I have to say that Gone With The Wind isn't the most well-written book, but if s plot is what keeps me attracted to it. The same idea applies to John Berendt's Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil. A friend loaned me his autographed copy of the book this summer, promising I would sincerely enjoy the work being a Georgia native and an afficionado of Savannah. After readDeepest | Columnist | Most of us have secret desires and 1 if i n i i .1.1. _ x wisnes. iviost 01 us nave amDinons tnat drive us through life, hoping one day this lifelong wish will be fulfilled to our expectations. We toil through school, through friends, through it all, so we can accomplish that which we hold most dear and most furtive. For some of us, we long to be doctors or harmonica designers. Others wish to be crime bosses or school teachers. And let's not forget those who practice everyday and dream of becoming professional athletes, who eventually become washed up and retire after a mediocre career and then pursue a job as a broadcaster for their sport, in which all they do is receive compliments, such as "Oh, in your heyday, you had no problem making that catch" or "You were one tough cookie when you played ... you always got up after a big hit," from the other broadcaster who never quite made it. However, only 4 percent of the 67 percent of mediocre athletes who make it from the 5.342 percent of those who want to make it, ever get to be washed up, so this career choice is quite risky. For me, however, I have what I would call a different ambition, a dif NEWS Pnm v\?z 31SI I IP? itely lost a lot of money. We kno resident Emilie Greene, on the ] The Wallflowei it' proves ing Angela Ashes, I sat down to read the book. Honestly, I didn't want to like this ?j book. It looked so trendy and mass marketed. Word was that people in Sa vannah were starting to refer to Midnight as "The Book," a moniker generally reserved for The Bible. Midnight's reputation preceded it and scared me. I was, however, pleasantly surprised. Berendt added the right eas amount of Flanneiy O'Connor-inspired J gothic Southern-esque elements to Go< make the story more of a commentary abo on realistic Southern life. Unfortu- did nately, the recently released movie was c^u< unable to accomplish this. Pr Ih( I was so psyched to see this movie. crij bo last maay, i neaaea out in tne aanK see Atlanta, Ga., rain to see the film. Sure, boo I had read the bad reviews, but I dis- der regarded them and decided to keep an open mind. me Wrong approach. I should have re" heeded the warnings. I should have Sot listened to the critics. I should have remembered how much I really didn't like Clint Eastwood as an actor or a re^! director. **" ahc My friend Kate has a philosophy phr about Eastwood films: They're always bac long, pointless and end poorly. ban secret am ferent aspiration. In my regular life, I wish to be a journalist of some sort, writing for a newspaper or magazine. Also, if my musical talents take me J anywhere, that lifestyle (i.e. being in a touring, No. 1-selling-album band) would be just as fine. But, I have a deeper, more prosperous passion I don't think will ever come true, but is one that in some part of my life I wish to pursue. I want to be (are you ready for this) the first guy to be married to the first woman president of the United be ^ States! conj Think of how cool that would be! I would set the president, baby! I ca^ just think I would have the greatest ban fimp Tf. wmilH hp a rrtnsf mnmpnfmis position. I definitely would become a question on "Jeopardy." That's when you know made it in ?rh( this world, when you are the question to an answer on "Jeopardy." I can see it now ? "He was the first husband of the first woman president, most no table for walking out on the White Jus* House lawn in his underwear, acci- er v dentally setting Camp David on fire ^U? and starting a war with Bahrain be- "Fir cause of the infamous quote 'So, where's woi the rain?'" You know that now the president's ide wife is called the "First Lady," right? the Well, I would want to be called the in 1 LY'i V -r&offt m \ WQ&fcl :^|ega^ of *;> -';-''Viftffl , >1 (?>i '// ? ? fti 1 ' i"U w that we lost thousands < projected monetary loss di *s concert. evil, nc But the one thing that ticked just reinforced the infamous quirky, slightly mentally of freal And, yes, this philosophy can be ily applied to Eastwood's rendition Midnight. i, where do I begin complaining ut this movie? It was, as Kate pre;ed, long, pointless and poorly conled. The contortion of characters, ts and events made me nauseated. 3 fake Southern accents made me 1/ta T rrimnn IUn aaItt f V* i r\ rf f h of igc. x gucoa tuc unij tiling mat med remotely realistic was the ik's setting and the actual murBut the one thing that ticked off about this movie was it just lforced the infamous stereotype of itherners as quirky, slightly meny off-balanced, slow-speaking freaks, as if all Southern movies have this ipe: Add one Southern belle, a few ite-trash rednecks, a cultured lawyer 1 a token wacky, slightly schizoenic townsperson. Mix with a mossy kground and a sordid story and g, instant hit. f LUlUV/11 J. ' 4 fou know that now the presic idy," right? Well, I would war ? st Guy." Yeah, that's right, the st Guy." Not the "First Man" or "First Husd" or "First Gentlemen," it would he "First Guy." I could see the press ference now: Reporter: "So, what do want to be ed, the 'First Man,' the 'First Husd,' what?" Me: "The First Guy, baby!" TT ii* 1.1 l J y neaoime on uie next uay s newsiers: "The First Guy to be called 2 First Guy!" That's right, setting the president, y. That's really the whole reason y I want to be the "First Guy," ; so I can make sure that when othyomen become president, all their ibands will be refereed to as the at flnv " inat Konaiiao T cairl an T'Viat lid be killer. Anyway, besides setting the presnt and doing other things with president, I would probably go down listory forever. Yes, people would mye mux W\ sw ^/ i r-^Ai af dollars." ne to poor ticket sales for >t onnd O me off about this movie was stereotype of Southerners as f-balanced, slow-speaking LS." The South and its people are so much more than that. However, Eastwood obviously failed to see this. He played up every stereotype in the book for this film. It made Southerners, once again, look like a bunch of fools, which I think is really totally off" base. The characters in the book weren't represented in this manner, and Eastwood should have honored that one characteristic. Okay, so books and their movies are never really mirror images of each other, but Eastwood could have used a little less creativity when making this movie and stuck to the facts. This movie didn't even reflect the written prose that gave birth to it. It would be like taking Gone With The Wind, making a movie and having the South win the Civil War. Now does my disgust make sense? evealed lent's wife is called the "First Lt to be called the "First Guy." write books and books about my life, and there would be endless documentaries about the "First-First Guy of the United States" on A&E. Yeah man, I don't mind taking orders from a woman. I would be total Jy content and awlully proud to say that my wife was the most powerful woman on the face of the planet we call Earth. Right on! Well, that's it. There's my most secret and hidden ambition laid out to you all on paper. I admit, it's kind of on/] rwv^KoKlir urAiil/ln'f V*orv wu ui^r r* au cuiu pi uuauij tyvuiuii t nap pen to me, but a man can dream can't he? Well, who knows, it might. If there are any girls out there planning on being the first female president of the United States and you need a "First Guy," as you've read, Fm your guy. So, just give me a call or something. Fll be here walking around in my underwear.